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The 1960 interracial marriage census showed 51,000 black-white couples. White males and black females being slightly more common (26,000) than black males and white females (25,000) The 1960 census also showed that Interracial marriage involving Asian and Native American was the most common.
Interracial marriages involving a White woman have a higher risk of divorce, as compared with interracial marriages involving Asian or Black women. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] According to authors Stella Ting-Toomey and Tenzin Dorjee, the increased risk of divorce observed in couples with a White wife may be related to decreased support from family members ...
Grey Villet (1927–2000) was an American photojournalist of South African origin. He was "Magazine Photographer of the Year" in the United States in 1956. Employed by Life, his notable work included photographs of the Cuban Revolution at the end of 1958, and of Mildred and Richard Loving, who successfully challenged the State of Virginia’s law against interracial marriage in the Supreme ...
One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. In the more than half-century since ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store The post Interracial marriages to get added protection under new law appeared first ...
Attitudes towards bans on interracial marriage began to change in the 1960s. Civil rights organizations were helping interracial couples who were being penalized for their relationships to take their cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since Pace v. Alabama (1883), the U.S. Supreme Court had declined to make a judgment in such cases.
California has allowed interracial marriage since 1948. Mike and Jeralyn Wirtz recall that by the time they met in 1976, they both had made meaningful friendships with people of other races.
In Georgia, for instance, the number of interracial marriages increased from 21 in 1967 to 115 in 1970. [48] At the national level, 0.4% of marriages were interracial in 1960, 2.0% in 1980, [49] 12% in 2013, [50] and 16% in 2015, almost 50 years after Loving. [51]